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The Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
Episode 405
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA, a policy tha…
5 years, 7 months ago
Getting White People to Talk About Racism
Episode 404
George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which racist systems are intrinsic to America. The anti-…
5 years, 7 months ago
Josephine Decker’s “Shirley”
Episode 403
The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her generation, and picked her 2018 film “Madeline’s Madeline”…
5 years, 7 months ago
Can Police Violence Be Curbed?
Episode 402
“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1978. This week, the staff writer Jelani…
5 years, 7 months ago
Mark Cuban Wants to Save Capitalism from Itself
Episode 401
Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dallas Mavericks owner has been advocating for changes th…
5 years, 7 months ago
Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China
Episode 400
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to normal l…
5 years, 7 months ago
Reading “The Plague” During a Plague, and Memorial Day by the Pool
Episode 399
When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the most natural thing she could think of: she assigne…
5 years, 7 months ago
Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Episode 398
Abie Roehrig, a twenty-year-old undergraduate, has put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-challenge trial to test the efficacy of a COVID-1…
5 years, 7 months ago
Perfume Genius Talks with Jia Tolentino, and Anthony Lane Examines Outbreaks in the Movies
Episode 397
The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino has been following the artist Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume Genius, since his first album; he has just released…
5 years, 7 months ago
Jill Lepore on How a Pandemic Ends
Episode 396
Jill Lepore discusses the “stay at home” campaigns that ran on radio stations during the polio years, devised to keep children indoors; she is especi…
5 years, 8 months ago